Aeronautical Engineering

General Info:

Aeronautical Engineering Department is aimed to educate engineers for the design and manufacturing of the new aircrafts developed by Turkish aviation industry, and also maintenance of civil and military aircrafts. the department also undertakes the necessary research and application on the relatede fields.

Aeronautical Engineering Department founded in 1941 under the Mechanical Engineering Department as a branch giving Aeronautical Engineering degree, and in 1944, became a separate department in the Mechanical Engineering Faculty. With the establishment of Faculty of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, it was joined to this faculty and is still continuing its activities under this faculty. 10 professors, (1 foreigners), 2 Associate Professors, 6 Assistant Professor, 4 Lecturer and 9 Research Assistants form the current staff. Until today, 1937 students have been graduated from the undergraduate program and now in the English preparation school and 1,2,3, and 4. grades 411 bachelor science degree students are enrolled. Every year 50 students from the first 3% through the nationwide entrance exam are accepted

Admission to the department is controlled by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM), which is affiliated to the Higher Education Council (YÖK).
Students accepted to the program can be divided into five categories:

1)Regular high school or technical and vocationally oriented high school graduates.
2)The first ranking graduates of high schools.
3)Foreign students.
4)Transfer students from different engineering programs at ITU and other domestic and foreign universities.
5)Students of other engineering programs at ITU pursuing double major in Aeronautical Engineering.

Regular high school or technical and vocationally oriented high school graduates are accepted to the program through a nationwide University Entrance Examination (ÖSS), which is performed in two successive stages every year in March and June. The examination aims to measure the verbal and the quantitative abilities of the candidates and is administered by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM), which is affiliated with the Higher Education Council (YÖK). Candidates are essentially evaluated on basis of their performance in the examinations together with their academic achievement (grade-point averages) in high school. The effective scores of the candidates reflect not only their selection examination scores but also their grade point averages at high school graduation. The candidates are placed in the higher education programs that are the highest on their list of preferences, if compatible with their scores.

The department has a limited number of quota for foreign students which is announced by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM). The foreign students who wish to enroll in the program should have to meet the criteria outlined by the Higher Education Council of Turkey at:YÖKand Application Conditions to Undergraduate Level Programs athttp://www.sis.itu.edu.tr/eng/foreign/ .

Job Opportunities:

Aeronautical engineering is an engineering branch dealing with the designing and developing of aircrafts, helicopters, rockets and bullets of weapon systems which are moving in the air. Furthermore, it is possible to gain required ability in order to develop skills subjected to repair, maintenance and operation of the vehicles mentioned above. Alternatively, aeronautical engineering contributes also on the topics covering such as land vehicles to R&D and Design activities. Consequently Aeronautical Engineers have the opportunity to obtain employment in a wide range among Aircraft and Defense to Automotive Industries.